This paper discusses the relationship between two scientific disciplines: Applied Psycholinguistics and recent Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). The paper suggests that many difficulties inherent in CMT can be overcome by paying greater attention to the research consolidated in the tradition of Applied Psycholinguistics. In particular it emphasizes the dynamic quality of metaphor in discourse, i.e. to how metaphor emerges, grows, changes and lives in a text. Once having posited this possibility, the development of metaphor is seen to be text-specific, in the sense that the representation of knowledge through metaphor is dependent on discourse strategies which are characteristic, first of all, of the particular genre to which the discourse refers and, secondly, of the specific text in which the discourse unfolds. In other words, different texts will yield different modalities of metaphoric display. Moreover, within this perspective, if we hold steadfast to the role of context in informing the text as a situated-dynamic communicative event, we shall see that the limits inherent in researcher-generated databases (or even corpus-assisted decontextualized searches) of metaphorical expressions is overcome. Metaphorization emerges as both the result and the producer of human conceptualizations. Thus, a more holistic description of this fascinating phenomenon in human cognition and language, that is labeled Conceptual Metaphor, can be achieved.

Ponterotto, D.m. (2012). Current questions in cognitive linguistics and the heritage of applied psycholinguistics.. In G. Mininni, A. Manuti (a cura di), Applied Psycholinguistics: positive effects and ethical perspectives, vol.1 (pp. 139-146). Milano : FrancoAngeli.

Current questions in cognitive linguistics and the heritage of applied psycholinguistics.

PONTEROTTO, DIANE MARIA
2012-01-01

Abstract

This paper discusses the relationship between two scientific disciplines: Applied Psycholinguistics and recent Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). The paper suggests that many difficulties inherent in CMT can be overcome by paying greater attention to the research consolidated in the tradition of Applied Psycholinguistics. In particular it emphasizes the dynamic quality of metaphor in discourse, i.e. to how metaphor emerges, grows, changes and lives in a text. Once having posited this possibility, the development of metaphor is seen to be text-specific, in the sense that the representation of knowledge through metaphor is dependent on discourse strategies which are characteristic, first of all, of the particular genre to which the discourse refers and, secondly, of the specific text in which the discourse unfolds. In other words, different texts will yield different modalities of metaphoric display. Moreover, within this perspective, if we hold steadfast to the role of context in informing the text as a situated-dynamic communicative event, we shall see that the limits inherent in researcher-generated databases (or even corpus-assisted decontextualized searches) of metaphorical expressions is overcome. Metaphorization emerges as both the result and the producer of human conceptualizations. Thus, a more holistic description of this fascinating phenomenon in human cognition and language, that is labeled Conceptual Metaphor, can be achieved.
2012
Settore L-LIN/12 - LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE
English
Rilevanza internazionale
Capitolo o saggio
Conceptual Metaphor Thoery, Applied Pscyholinguistics, text, context
Ponterotto, D.m. (2012). Current questions in cognitive linguistics and the heritage of applied psycholinguistics.. In G. Mininni, A. Manuti (a cura di), Applied Psycholinguistics: positive effects and ethical perspectives, vol.1 (pp. 139-146). Milano : FrancoAngeli.
Ponterotto, Dm
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